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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
To: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
	Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>,
	Nicolas Schier <nicolas.schier@linux.dev>,
	Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208@gmail.com>,
	"nir.tzachar@gmail.com" <nir.tzachar@gmail.com>,
	Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: nconf: NUL-terminate 'line' correctly in fill_window()
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 17:19:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dfa160ef-4145-4666-83ea-cccc874bf9b0@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250810142239.120294-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev>



On 8/10/25 7:22 AM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
> Use 'min(len, x)' as the index instead of just 'len' to NUL-terminate
> the copied 'line' string at the correct position.
> 
> Add a newline after the local variable declarations to silence a
> checkpatch warning.
> 
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Fixes: 692d97c380c6 ("kconfig: new configuration interface (nconfig)")
> Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>

LGTM. Thanks.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

> ---
>  scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c
> index 7206437e784a..ec021ebd2c52 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c
> @@ -175,8 +175,9 @@ void fill_window(WINDOW *win, const char *text)
>  	for (i = 0; i < total_lines; i++) {
>  		char tmp[x+10];
>  		const char *line = get_line(text, i);
> -		int len = get_line_length(line);
> -		strncpy(tmp, line, min(len, x));
> +		int len = min(get_line_length(line), x);
> +
> +		strncpy(tmp, line, len);
>  		tmp[len] = '\0';
>  		mvwprintw(win, i, 0, "%s", tmp);
>  	}

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2025-08-11  0:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-10 14:22 [PATCH] kconfig: nconf: NUL-terminate 'line' correctly in fill_window() Thorsten Blum
2025-08-11  0:19 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2025-08-11 12:51 ` Franco Martelli
2025-08-11 15:08   ` Thorsten Blum
2025-08-11 16:19     ` Thorsten Blum

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